Us the upcoming meeting between qualcomm and broadcom and a lot more lets give you a quick look at the futures at this moment we are set up of a higher open, this is has not been a great tale for the rest of the day given the volatility that we saw last week. We did end the week on an up note have not put the two backtoback there is germany though and the rest of europe like we are really, really weak. Come on, everybody is down the same amount, it just does not make a lot of sense. Tlhere is a shared concern 2. 86 calmer than they were at 3 00 a. M thats important. We can see wti is having a little bounce as well. We start with the course markets that bounced back after the worst week of stocks ins southeaster since 2016 you know what jim says about the futures. Plus, the white house is rolling out its budget and a new 200 billion infrastructure. Key question, how are they going to pay all of that broadcom continuing acquiring qualcomm it would be the largest deal of technology of all
Also, a Senate Intelligence hearing in an hour. And the retail wreckage continues. Sears is closing even more stores and macys lowered guidance yesterday. Talking about margins. But there might be a bright spot and the name is walmart. Tesla stock hit an all time yesterday and where they might be headed with the model 3. First up, the president has chosen the nominee to be next fbi director as comey gets ready to testify on capitol hill tomorrow. Our eamon javers is in washington. What a day for news. Good morning, eamon. Good morning. So Christopher Wray will be the president s nominee for fbi director one day before the former fbi director james comey is scheduled to testify on capitol hill about his interactions with the president. The president has selected somebody new. Heres the tweet from the president just a few moments ago. He said i will be nominating christopher a. Wray, a man of impeccable credentials to be the new fbi director. Details to follow. What are some of those cre
You can look closely here its in the righthand shoulder. The southbound side of route 73. Right around fellow ship road or the new jersey turnpike. Traffic is moving by the scene. There was a Police Officer back here, im not sure what he was doing in the center lanes. Just use caution if you are traveling through. Should be cleaned up in the next couple minutes. Seem to be doing a good job there. As far 55 in new jersey, southbound between exit they 9 and vineland. Use 35. The right lane will be closed for construction until about 3 30. And more construction, so not in new jersey but heading to new jersey this might affect you between route 9 and new castle avenue. The west lane is closed heading into new jersey. Were following a developing story. This is causing problems for people. Thousands of southwest Airline Customers told to show up hours earlier than normal because of a computer glitch. Matt delucia is here in the studio with more. Passengers are still feeling the effects nearl
Haven to the vine street expressway a 14minute trip. Some lane restrictions but moving through the area. Well have more on these when i come back in the next ten minutes. Thanks. Were continuing to track developing news, happening at airports nationwide. Southwest airlines telling customers to show up hours earlier than expected because of a computer glitch. Nbc 10s matt delucia is live in our Digital Operations Center with more on the air and the impact. Tell us more. We have seen long lines at the southwest counter early this morning. So southwest is dealing with this glitch even at this hour. And they are trying to figure out what caused it and southwest right now they are asking customers to show up two hours, at least, before a scheduled flight. This is mainly impacting the Service Desks inside the airports and the website and the mobile app. This is just Southwest Airlines that were talking about. No other Airlines Reported issues. At this moment the airline is using backup syste
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